Introduction Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• 1950s

  Viewers are invited to vote for their favourite decade of television. Roy Hattersley and the Observer's Kathryn Flett begin the debate by looking at television of the 1950s. The result of the vote is announced on Sunday 3 April

• 1960s

  TV critic Chris Dunkley and broadcaster Mark Lawson discuss the highs and lows of British television in the 1960s. The debate is interspersed with defining shows from the period, before the results of the vote are announced in a live programme on April 3

• 1970s

  Broadcaster Alan Coren and journalist Sarfraz Manzoor discuss the highs and lows of British television in the 1970s

• 1980s

  Guardian columnist David Aaronovitch and James Delingpole, TV critic for The Spectator, discuss the highs and lows of British television in the 1980s

• 1990s

  Discussion on the highs and lows of British television in the 1990s, illustrated tonight by a selection of programmes capturing the spirit of the times, from comedy hit Men Behaving Badly to cultural commentator Jonathan Meades' post-modernist slant on vegetarianism, and the sexual chemistry between Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle in the big-screen adaptation of Pride and Prejudice

• 2000s

  Writer and broadcaster Janet Street-Porter and Today presenter John Humphrys discuss the highs and lows of British television in the 21st century